Editing Double Indemnity (section)

==Accolades==
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|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="7"| [[17th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]]
| [[Paramount Pictures]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="7"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945 |title=The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=August 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093748/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/17th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Billy Wilder]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Barbara Stanwyck]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Billy Wilder and [[Raymond Chandler]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black and White]]
| [[John F. Seitz]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture]]
| [[Miklós Rózsa]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound Recording]]
| [[Loren Ryder]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=December 16, 2015 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305191832/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Billy Wilder
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?awardyear=1944 |title=1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |publisher=[[New York Film Critics Circle]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=January 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130073128/http://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?awardyear=1944 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Barbara Stanwyck
| {{nom}}
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards
| colspan="2"| Film Hall of Fame: Productions
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |title=Film Hall of Fame: Productions |publisher=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=November 24, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>
|}

Filmed and released during the dark days of [[World War II]], the film was not popular with the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|Academy]]. Wilder went to the awards ceremony expecting to win. The studio had been backing its other big hit of the year, [[Leo McCarey]]'s ''[[Going My Way]]'', and their employees were expected to vote for the studio favorite. As ''Double Indemnity'' kept losing during the awards show, it became evident that there would be a ''Going My Way'' sweep. When McCarey was named Best Director, a bitter Wilder tripped him on his way to accept the award.<ref name="Lally"/>{{rp|140}} After the ceremony, Wilder yelled so everyone could hear him, "What the hell does the Academy Award mean, for God's sake? After all – [[Luise Rainer]] won it two times. Luise Rainer!"<ref name="zolmain"/>{{rp|123}}